Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast-thinking Lawyer John Francis Neylan, longtime Hearst adviser, was based principally on the claim that Herbert Fleishhacker never imposed a repayment condition upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period on the stand, Banker Fleishhacker categorically denied all charges in the plaintiff's lengthy complaint, maintained he had acted in perfect good faith. Finally Lawyer Neylan called serious little Etienne Lang to the stand and twitted the Frenchman about gold bricks, international debts and finally, in an amazingly...
...service routes and make it possible to discontinue the construction of large, expensive boats. The practice of the future will be to construct combination passenger and freight boats, but to carry by airplane first-class mail, express matter and the passenger who is in a hurry. . . . I hold no brief against Pan American Airways. . . . The service which they propose for Europe will serve Atlantic ports of Europe and England, whereas we will serve Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...General to intervene in lower-court constitutional cases, provides for speeding such cases to the Supreme Court, permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention of the Attorney General mandatory. As the four were read the Vice President pounded his ivory gavel on his desk as though it had been on a tom-tom, shouting: "Without objection the amendment is agreed to. . . Without objection the amendment is agreed...
...research. They handle about 20 jobs a week and expect to gross about $100,000 this year. Their largest fee so far was $1,900 for the annual report of a corporation. Smallest was from a man in Panama who sent in a check for $5 asking for a brief and suitable expression for his daughter's wedding breakfast...
...CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...